Almost a year ago I posted a link to a free pattern dowloadable from Riley Blake Designs. It was called “Hope Chest” but that was actually the name of the fabric line they used for this project. I started making blocks from my leftovers and kept calling it “Hope Chest” anyway. It is not really a scrap project as you need two 5″ squares of the same fabric per block. Whenever I had enough squares for a block, I made one, and when I had 35, I put them all together. Somehow I didn’t like the result very much. I think most of my leftovers were too dark, not the bright, cheerful colours I like, and the pieces in the finished blocks are still too big for my taste. Scrap quilt pieces have to be small, otherwise my OCD can’t handle all the different fabrics. But I wanted to donate it anyway, so I put it on the frame and started quilting. And boy, do I like how that turned out! It looks like a completely different quilt now. Quilting really makes the quilt!